Author:
Narrator: Lyssa Browne
Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback
Publisher: Listen & Live Audio
Published: Jan 2012
Genre: Fiction - Romance - Suspense
Retail Price: $29.95
In the summer of 1942, twenty-one-year-old Anne Calloway, newly engaged, sets off to serve in the Army Nurse Corps on the Pacific island of Bora-Bora. More exhilarated by the adventure of a lifetime than she ever was by her predictable fiancé, she is drawn to a mysterious soldier named Westry, and their friendship soon blossoms into hues as deep as the hibiscus flowers native to the island. Under the thatched roof of an abandoned beach bungalow, the two share a private world-until they witness a gruesome crime, Westry is suddenly redeployed, and the idyll vanishes into the winds of war. A timeless story of enduring passion, The Bungalow chronicles Anne's determination to discover the truth about the twin losses-of life, and of love-that have haunted her for seventy years.
I wanted to like this book, but honestly, it was terrible. The writing was trite, the story ridiculous, and the main character was naive and rather dumb. I finished it only because I was waiting for my next book to arrive.